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By Emily C. Arauz, PhD Candidate Dept. of Archaeology and History of
Art, Graduate School of Social Sciences & Humanities Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey

Upon
exiting the San Martiño Pinario Monastery conference hall on the final day of
the NEARCHing Factory, a fellow attendee made the cursory remark to myself and
a colleague that this will go down in history as one of those conferences where, years hence, everyone will be asking one
another: “Were you at the Nearching
Factory in Santiago de Compostela, January 30th – February 1st,
2017?” Fortunately,
I was one of the lucky 96 attendees who took part in this unique experience over
the course of two and a half rainy and cold days in the Galicia region of Spain.
The meeting, deemed a ‘factory’, was a public and interactive component of the
NEARCH (New ways of Engaging audiences,
Activating societal relations and Renewing Practices in Cultural Heritage) project[1],
organized in coordination with INCIPIT, CSIC[2],
CYTED, and with suppor…